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Psychology
830:514
Sensation and Perception
Dr Ilona Kovács and Zsuzsa Káldy Spring 2002 M (9:50-12:50) Classroom: A114 Psych Building - Busch |
Last updated: April 15, 2002
Description: The goal is to understand the behavioral relevance of perceptual function. In order to facilitate the students' understanding of sensation and perception from this point of view we will start with high-level visual perception, and review recent evidence with respect to the functional dissociation between the two major visual pathways in humans (one mediating the visual control of action, and the other responsible for conscious visual perception). We will then discuss how the lower level visual system might serve the behaviorally relevant high-level functions. The focus will be on neuropsychological and psychophysical studies, but we will also cover some anatomical, neurophysiological and developmental findings.
Course format: We will focus on readings. The instructor will set the stage by a lecture in the first part of each class. In the second part of each class, the instructor and students will discuss the readings together.
Office hours:
Wednesday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Busch Psychology A123 (Dr. Kovács)
Monday, 5:00-6:00 pm, Busch, 130A (Káldy)
Appointments may be made after class.
Contact:
e-mail Dr. Kovács
e-mail Káldy
Readings:
- A number of recent papers will be reviewed. The papers will be available in pdf format below.
Assignments:
- Each student will be assigned one or two papers. The list below has papers accessible for students at different levels of neuroscientific knowledge. The assigned papers will be reviewed in class in the form of a presentation (30 to 60 minutes, depending on the length of the material).
- There will be one take-home written assignment: students will describe a theoretical question related to the material (discussed in the introduction with detailed references), and try to address it experimentally. They will describe the methods and design of the experiment, and their predictions with respect to the outcome. The experiment will not be carried out. The papers should be between 5 to 10 pages, and should be turned in by April 25.
- Students will carry out an extensive literature search in which they will use databases (e.g. PubMed, Science Direct, ISI) to find articles on the last topic of the semester.
- The presentations will contribute 40% to the grade.
- The written assignment will contribute 40% to the grade.
- The literature search will contribute 10% to the grade.
- Class attendance will be part of the grade and will contribute 10%
- Extra credits can be earned by bringing in readings that are relevant to the topics.
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Topic
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Readings (by first author and year of
publ.)
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Reviewed
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Jan 28
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Feb 4
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Ungerleider and Mishkin, 1982, Livingstone
and Hubel, 1988,
Goodale and Milner, 1992; Milner and Goodale,
1995, chapter 2
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Sara |
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Feb 11
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Tim |
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Feb 18
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Feb 25
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Mar 4
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3. Low-level input to the temporal cortex
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Ilona
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Mar 11
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b)
Color processing in V1
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Mar 14,
10.00 am (Thursday!) |
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Sara |
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Apr 1
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a) Motion &
depth in V1
b) Motion & depth in MT |
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Apr 8
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6. Retinal input to the pathways
Magno
and parvocellular systems |
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Apr 15
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7. Developmental aspects of parallel
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Dave
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Apr 22
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8. Clinical aspects of parallel processing
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Estelle |
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Apr 29
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10 AM April
26
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ALL
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Andersen RA, Snyder LH, Bradley DC, Xing J. Multimodal representation of space in the posterior parietal cortex and its use in planning movements. Annu Rev Neurosci. 1997;20:303-30. pdf
Baker CI, Keysers C, Jellema T, Wicker B, Perrett DI. Neuronal representation of disappearing and hidden objects in temporal cortex of the macaque. Exp Brain Res. 2001 Oct; 140(3):375-81. pdf
Ursula Bellugi, Liz Lichtenberger, Wendy Jones, Zona Lai and Marie St. George. The Neurocognitive Profile of Williams Syndrome: A Complex Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience volume 12 Suppl 1 pdf
Britten KH, Shadlen MN, Newsome WT, Movshon JA. The analysis of visual motion: a comparison of neuronal and psychophysical performance. J Neurosci. 1992 Dec; 12(12):4745-65
Burr DC, Morrone MC, Ross J. Separate visual representations for perception and action revealed by saccadic eye movements. Curr Biol. 2001 May 15;11(10):798-802. pdf
Colby CL, Duhamel JR. Spatial representations for action in parietal cortex. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 1996 Dec; 5(1-2):105-15. pdf
Corballis PM, Fendrich R, Shapley RM, Gazzaniga MS. Illusory contour perception and amodal boundary completion: evidence of a dissociation following callosotomy. J Cogn Neurosci. 1999 Jul;11(4):459-66. pdf
Gabrieli JD. Cognitive neuroscience of human memory. Annu Rev Psychol. 1998; 49:87-115.
Goodale MA, Milner AD. Separate visual pathways for perception and action. Trends Neurosci. 1992 Jan; 15(1):20-5.
Gold JI, Shadlen MN. Neural computations that underlie decisions about sensory stimuli. Trends Cogn Sci. 2001 Jan 1;5(1):10-16. pdf
Grill-Spector K, Kourtzi Z, Kanwisher N. The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition.Vision Res. 2001;41(10-11):1409-22. pdf
Hubel, D. H., & Livingstone, M. S. (1987). Segregation of form, color, and stereopsis in primate area 18. Journal of Neuroscience, 7(11), 3378-3415.
Johnson MH. Functional brain development in humans. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2001 Jul;2(7):475-83. pdf
Kassubek J, Otte M, Wolter T, Greenlee MW, Mergner T, Lucking CH. Brain imaging in a patient with hemimicropsia. Neuropsychologia. 1999 Nov;37(12):1327-34. pdf
Katz LC. What's critical for the critical period in visual cortex? Cell. 1999 Dec 23;99(7):673-6. pdf
L Kiorpes, DC Kieper, LP O'Keefe, JR Cavanaugh, JA Movshon: Neuronal correlates of amblyopia in the visual cortex of macaque monkeys with experimental strabismus and anisometropia. J. Neurosci, 18(16):6411-6424, 1998 pdf
I. Kovacs, P. Kozma, A. Feher and G. Benedek: Late maturation of visual spatial integration in humans. full text in pdf | PubMed | PNAS online 6 pages
I. Kovács: Human development of perceptual organization. full text in pdf | PubMed | Science Direct 9 pages
Larsson J, Amunts K, Gulyas B, Malikovic A, Zilles K, Roland PE. Neuronal correlates of real and illusory contour perception: functional anatomy with PET. Eur J Neurosci. 1999 Nov;11(11):4024-36. pdf
Livingstone M, Hubel D. Segregation of form, color, movement, and depth: anatomy, physiology, and perception. Science. 1988 May 6;240(4853):740-9
Lee TS, Mumford D, Romero R, Lamme VA. The role of the primary visual cortex in higher level vision. Vision Res. 1998 Aug; 38(15-16):2429-54. pdf
Logothetis NK, Pauls J, Poggio T. Shape representation in the inferior temporal cortex of monkeys. Curr Biol. 1995 May 1;5(5):552-63.
Magnussen S. Low-level memory processes in vision. Trends Neurosci. 2000 Jun;23(6):247-51
Mendola JD, Dale AM, Fischl B, Liu AK, Tootell RB. The representation of illusory and real contours in human cortical visual areas revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci. 1999 Oct 1;19(19):8560-72. pdf
Milner, A. D., & Goodale, M. A. (1995). The visual brain in action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (selected chapters)
Mon-Williams M, Tresilian JR, McIntosh RD, Milner AD. Monocular and binocular distance cues: insights from visual form agnosia I (of III). Exp Brain Res. 2001 Jul;139(2):127-36. pdf
O'Keefe LP, Movshon JA. Processing of first- and second-order motion signals by neurons in area MT of the macaque monkey. Vis Neurosci. 1998 Mar-Apr;15(2):305-17. pdf
Rogers-Ramachandran DC, Ramachandran VS. Psychophysical evidence
for boundary and surface systems in human vision. Vision Res. 1998
Jan;38(1):71-7. pdf
Roe AW, Ts'o DY. Specificity of color connectivity between primate V1 and V2. J Neurophysiol. 1999 Nov;82(5):2719-30. pdf
Shadlen MN, Newsome WT. Neural basis of a perceptual decision in the parietal cortex (area lip) of the rhesus monkey. J Neurophysiol. 2001 Oct;86(4):1916-36. pdf
Shadlen MN, Newsome WT. Motion perception: seeing and deciding. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Jan 23;93(2):628-33. pdf
Sur M, Leamey CA. Development and plasticity of cortical areas and networks. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2001 Apr;2(4):251-62.
Tanaka K. Mechanisms of visual object recognition studied in monkeys.
Spat Vis. 2000;13(2-3):147-63. pdf
Tootell, R. B. H., Hadjikhani, N. K., Mendola, J. D., Marrett, S., & Dale, A. M. (1998). From retinotopy to recognition: fMRI in human visual cortex. Trends Cognit. Sci., 2, 174–183. pdf
Tsunoda K, Yamane Y, Nishizaki M, Tanifuji M. Complex objects are represented
in macaque inferotemporal cortex by the combination of feature columns.
Nat Neurosci. 2001 Aug;4(8):832-8. pdf
Ungerleider, L. G. & Mishkin, M. (1982). Two cortical visual systems. In D. J. Ingle, M. A. Goodale, & R. J. W. Mansfield, Analysis of visual behavior (pp. 549–586). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Van Essen DC, Lewis JW, Drury HA, Hadjikhani N, Tootell RB, Bakircioglu M, Miller MI. Mapping visual cortex in monkeys and humans using surface-based atlases. Vision Res. 2001; 41:(10-11):1359-78. pdf
von der Heydt R, Zhou H, Friedman HS. Representation of stereoscopic
edges in monkey visual cortex. Vision Res. 2000;40(15):1955-67. pdf